Peru president-elect Fujimori vows 'order and hope' after narrow election victory
Key takeaways
- Peru's conservative president-elect Keiko Fujimori pledged on Monday to restore "order and hope" after narrowly defeating left-wing rival Roberto Sanchez in a presidential run-off dominated by surging crime.
- Fujimori won the June 7 presidential runoff by the slimmest of margins, outpolling Sanchez by fewer than 50,000 votes out of the more than 18 million ballots cast, the final results showed.
- "Each time we draw closer to starting on the path of order and hope for all Peruvians," she wrote on X after being proclaimed the winner.
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Peru's conservative president-elect Keiko Fujimori pledged on Monday to restore "order and hope" after narrowly defeating left-wing rival Roberto Sanchez in a presidential run-off dominated by surging crime. Fujimori, declared the winner of the June 7 election, said on X Peru was moving closer to "the path of order and hope" for all citizens.
By: FRANCE 24 Keiko Fujimori will be the new president of Peru after defeating leftist Roberto Sánchez at the polls in a runoff election marked by a complex vote count © Iván Orbegoso, EFE Peru's conservative president-elect Keiko Fujimori vowed Monday to restore "order and hope" after defeating left-winger Roberto Sanchez in the latest victory for a resurgent Latin American right.
Fujimori won the June 7 presidential runoff by the slimmest of margins, outpolling Sanchez by fewer than 50,000 votes out of the more than 18 million ballots cast, the final results showed.